Posts Tagged ‘ mothers ’

Catherine Boyd will do anything to regain custody of her young son, even reconcile with the husband accused of killing their son’s twin. In Theresa Rizzo‘s novel “He Belongs to Me” Catherine graduates from college, eager to start a new life with her six-year-old son Drew. But when she tries to bring him home, her parents refuse to relinquish control of the grandson they’ve raised. Wrongly accused of a horrible crime, Thomas Boyd has buried…

When pneumonia lands Estelle Trager unconscious in the emergency room, her son Adam, and Liza, the thirty-three-year-old daughter-in-law she once called a godless hippie raised by wolves, learn of some significant tumors. It was a secret Estelle had intended to take to her grave.

Premature birth remains the number-one killer of newborns in the United States. In fact, with about one in eight pregnancies resulting in premature birth each year, the U.S. has one of the worst records in the world, and certainly among developed nations. The statistics are not only appalling, but surprising, and many parents are shocked, frightened and confused as they attempt to navigate the world of the neonatal intensive care unit. Now comes a powerful…

Sometimes, the most important conversation you can have is with someone who is gone. Do the words “Dear Mom” come any easier when Mom is gone? What if there were things you never told her? Things you’ve always wanted to know? And after you’ve written letters pouring your heart out to your mom, would you show those letters to your dad? Kate Kaiser did. Her book “Letters to my Mother (But Really for My Father)”…